5 players you forgot played for the Warriors

Pressey was never an All-Star, but he definitely could have been. After all, the three-time All-Defensive guard/forward wreaked havoc on opponents throughout his time in Milwaukee. He could certainly contribute on the offensive side of the ball, finishing in the top 20 in assists per game five times and averaging around 12 points per game in his eight seasons as a Buck. But where he created chaos was on D, with a defensive box plus/minus that currently ranks in the top 50 of any player that ever stepped foot on the NBA hardwood.

Pressey retired after the 1991-92 campaign and became an assistant with the Warriors, though he actually unretired and played with the team after injuries decimated the roster, and he was one of 20 people to log minutes that year. Unfortunately, he didn't contribute much in 18 games before he, too, was injured: just 4.4 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists per outing.

A sturdy force for the Hawks, Willis spent almost the entire first decade of his career in Atlanta, averaging 14.7 points and 10.1 rebounds per game in his first ten seasons (though he missed one with a knee injury). For his dominant production in 1991-92, Willis was named an All-Star and a third-team All-NBA selection, with 18.3 points and a whopping 15.5 boards per contest.

After such consistent surroundings for the first half of his career, the latter half was starkly different. It was from the Hawks to the Heat, then the Heat to the Warriors, where he played fewer games than all but one franchise in the NBA. The deal that sent him over wasn't exactly small — he and Bimbo Coles went to Golden State in return for Chris Gatling and, most importantly, Tim Hardaway. In those 28 games with the Dubs, Willis averaged 11.3 points and 7.8 rebounds, both lower than his career averages and the typical production we had seen prior to this point in his career.

He was released following the 1995-96 season and went on to play for Houston, Toronto, Denver, Houston (again), San Antonio, Atlanta (again) and Dallas throughout the rest of his career. It's safe to say that his legacy is remembered in Atlanta far more than anywhere else.

A frequent adversary of the Warriors earlier in his career, Van Exel was a terrific scorer and facilitator for the Lakers and Nuggets throughout the mid-to-late-1990s. A member of the all-time top-50 assists and three-pointers lists, Van Exel averaged 15.5 points and 7.2 assists while draining the three-ball at a near-36 percent clip in the first ten seasons of his career.

It was after that decade that he got traded from the Mavericks to the Warriors in a nine-player deal, the star of which was Antawn Jamison. And while Jamison won Sixth Man of the Year in his new surroundings, Van Exel wasn't as memorable with his new team. He played 39 games for those Warriors and though he had a big role (32.2 minutes per game), he struggled with efficiency (just 30.7 percent from deep) and saw his overall numbers take a dip. He was traded prior to the next season.

O'Neal is best known, hands down, for his days with the Indiana Pacers. He was there from the 2000-01 season to the 2007-08 season, earning All-Star recognition in six of those eight campaigns and averaging 18.6 points and 9.6 rebounds throughout the stint.

Six years after his Pacers days, after we saw him play in increasingly limited roles for teams such as the Raptors, Heat and Celtics, O'Neal landed in Golden State for what would be the final season of his illustrious career. He was there for 44 regular season games and seven playoff games, averaging 7.9 points and 5.5 rebounds and a predominantly bench role, though he filled in as a starter every so often. And while rumors of a potential comeback floated around, it never came to be.

Boucher was an underrated machine in 2020-21, finishing sixth in the league in blocks while turning the Raptors into somewhat of an offensive juggernaut while he was on the court. His offensive rating of 127.4 was eighth in the entire league, and he was in the top 15 for win shares per 48 minutes played, meaning he very well could see an uptick in playing time from the 24.2 minutes per night that he saw in his breakout year.

His role with the Warriors? He played in one game, for one minute, and pulled down one rebound. That's it. The undrafted big man signed a two-way deal with them and then was waived, though not before he was technically a part of the 2018 Warriors championship team. One minute turned into one ring, and that's probably fine with him.